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'Former minister claims to be unaware of extortion allegations against staffer
Former manpower and transmigration minister Muhaimin Iskandar (Tribunnews/Herudin)Former manpower and transmigration minister Muhaimin Iskandar said he did not know anything about extortion allegations against Jamaluddien Malik, former director general for transmigration area development management at the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry (now the Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry)
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Former manpower and transmigration minister Muhaimin Iskandar (Tribunnews/Herudin) (Tribunnews/Herudin)
Former manpower and transmigration minister Muhaimin Iskandar (Tribunnews/Herudin)
Former manpower and transmigration minister Muhaimin Iskandar said he did not know anything about extortion allegations against Jamaluddien Malik, former director general for transmigration area development management at the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry (now the Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry).
"I knew nothing about extortion allegations toward Pak Jamal," said Muhaimin after he completed a questioning session at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon.
The National Awakening Party (PKB) chairman said that during the questioning, KPK investigators raised various questions related to the budgeting system in the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry under his leadership.
"I was asked about what my relationship, as a minister, with the House of Representatives and Pak Jamaluddien Malik looked like," Muhaimin said.
The antigraft body questioned the former minister as a witness for extortion suspect Jamaluddien Malik. Muhaimin went through around 8 hours of questioning and he left the KPK headquarters at 5:52 p.m.
The KPK had stated it could not yet estimate the potential financial losses to the state in this case. (ebf)
